Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1887-05-19


and child IN The east.
John II. Sweeney. OF Helena. one of
the firm of II. g.. Power d co.. died IN /
Helena. la,, week Tuesday, in his .
ior; V-,ixth Wear. He was at Last .
Chance Gulch ia 1863. lie leaves an .
estate OF about 10000. j
The commit tee having in charge the .
raising of a monument to the late 4
Father Ravalli. invite contribution, I
to ma kc up the required deficiency. {
address all communication to Henry
Buck. >tcven,Ville, Montana.
4 brick press recently received NJ
Billings to he used AT II brick yard
there. was only patented last Deem
her. and il 30 arranged that u small
/ boy can produce IA pressure of 10000
pounds by simply using a lever.
We saw a lot of Indians in Butte
/ the other day who looked so dirty
that they might very properly he
I termed real estate. And one squaw,
in particular. had not clothes enough
ON her, to dust "a iiddlc.-Boulder
Sentinel.
The pieean Indians have made
$1,000 >kinnins carca-Se- of cattle
pcrishiuc on the range li>t winter.
They got - cents for the hides. delir
cred The sq,,aws done the skinninG
aud the bucks had plenty of pin
money.
4 new discovery has been made in
the Yellowstone Park. The air * not
only light and bracing. bit il most adj
FOL.
poses. 4 shot fired in he upper park
can be heard over fifty miles away
Enterprise.
The Glendive Times gave up the
ghost on the 9TH inst. Part ri the
out fit has been purchased by the hide
pendent and the remainder has been
moved to Little Muddy. Dakota.
where W. W. Nabee intends to publish
n weekly paper.
Hon. T.. e. Waters informs the Bill
lings Gazette that there is from three
to seven feet oil snow on Il level in the
National Park. and that it will he ten
days before anyone can get in there
with ease. The hotels will be ready
for business by June | 5th.
Even the chur,.l,es are catching on
to the boom in Montana. Rev. Geo.
Comfort writes to the Christian Advo-
cate: I'VE must soon build II church
in Benton, which is IA place on the eve
of II boom. now apparently setting in
upon this Northwest.
j. ii. Elder. who was appointed
county attorney for Park county. re-
signed that office at the first meeting
OF the commissioners. being ineligible
as receiver of the First National
Bank OF Livingsto on. which il II Federal
office. J. \. Savage was appointed in
/ his stead.
Tom Meany. one of the collectors of
!. the Butte Daily Miner. made an I'M
usual but agreeable error last week.
While busiiy engaged in making col
lections, and in giving change for what
he supposed to be a - bill, he secured
what proved to he n big $50, and the
. same now awaits Il claimant.
! The members of the Uncle Tom out
fit got in "a wrangle on the train sun
day night, and "a white passenger was
very anxious to perforate one of the
Negroes for insulting his wife. Then
the show gang, loaded with whiskey.
commenced to quarrel among them
selves. and had ii not been for Cond,ic-
tor Flanders. they would proba-
, bly, have spilled some blood.-Dillon
Examiner.
II. G. Power 4 Bro. have already
ordered several carloads of building
material, to be shipped by river. and
will at once duplicate the order. There
is even now a constant demand for
material of this kind. and in a month
or two it will be ten times greater
River Press.
The Dillon Examiner is responsible
. for the statement that n hen of the
ordinary scrub variety" on IL ranch in
Cold Canyon, near the Blacktail, laid
an egg "A trite over eight inches in cir
conference one way by three and one
half the other-in fact it is larger than
an ordinary turkey egg both as to
size and weight"
There is a question asto the right OF
probate judges and justices of the
peace to devote to their own use the
fees received for certifying to the des-
truction of prairie dogs and ground
squirrels and destroying their skins
under the new bounty law. Under the
present law all county officers receive
salaries. and all fees are turned into
the respect i've treasures. The bount Y
law allows each judge and Justice one
cent for every prairie dog or squirrel
skin destroyed by him, and the opinion
is held by many that these are no
more than perquislties of the office,
, and as such should 60 to the county
with all other iecs.-Iielena Herald.
Uncle Josh came in from his ranch
on Saturday last, and when asked
: about his crops replied: "Oh, durr
: the crops; kin make more clear
money on ground squirrels then | kin
out n any crap that grows. T'other
week II long. lank, hungry ealoot come
round to my place aud wanted ter
, know if would board him If he'd set
his traps on my place. | jest hust-
led him off'n thar too quick.
guess | know when I've got Il good
thing. | perpose to take in them
squirrels myself when they git ripe. and
the first gol darned sucker that comes
round my ranch huntin squirrels
: will think I'm quite IA gunner myself. >
Chronicle.